Horse Sport Ireland has announced the appointment of Sam Griffiths as its new High Performance Eventing Manager ahead of the FEI World Championships in Aachen this summer and in the lead-up to the LA Olympic Games in 2028.
Horse Sport Ireland says that Sam ‘brings extensive experience as an elite athlete, performance manager and coach at the highest level of the sport’.
A dual Olympian and team medal winner for Australia at the Rio Games in 2016, the former Badminton Horse Trials champion has most recently worked with the New Zealand High Performance programme.
Based in the UK, Sam says he is looking forward to working with Ireland’s eventing athletes and support network “I’m really excited to be appointed as Horse Sport Ireland’s High Performance Eventing Manager. Ireland is a very strong equestrian nation with exceptional horses and riders so I’m hoping I can get the best out of everyone.
“Ireland is a nation very much on the up. I learned a lot throughout my riding career and also as head coach for New Zealand and I’m hoping to implement some of the philosophies I’ve honed along the way to this programme.
“I’m ambitious, we have the World Championships on the horizon, and we want to go well there. That’s also a stepping stone to the Olympics, with qualification to Los Angeles on offer and from there we have European Championships, but what I want is an Olympic medal, so let’s all pull in the same direction to get there."
